PASSENGERS at
Zanzibar Airports Authority (ZAA) rose by about four per cent to
1,220,891 in the
July 2019-March 2020 period from 1,176,868 travelers in
the July 2018-March 2019 period.
Infrastructure,
Communications and Transport Minister Dr Sira Ubwa Mamboya told the
House of Representatives that Abeid Amani Karume International Airport
(AAKIA) and Pemba Airport handled 1,147,764 and 73,127 passengers,
respectively.
She said out of the total passengers, 733,836 were international travellers and 487,055 were on domestic trips.
Passengers on transit were 130,715, with 125,255 of them passing through AAKIA and 5,460 travellers through Pemba.
The minister said
during the nine-month period to last March, the authority handled 1,873
tons of cargo, a 29 per cent increase from the 1,448 tons in the same
period that ended in March, 2019.
ZAA serviced 54 airlines, according to the minister.
Moving her
portfolio's 2020/2021 budget estimates, Dr Mamboya said Zanzibar
Maritime Authority (ZMA), registered impressive performance, with
domestic registration-Tanzania Zanzibar Registry-of 18 ships totaling
9,238 Gross Register Tonnage (GRT) as of March 2020.
The authority also
issued licenses to 449 small marine vessels, provided discharge books to
387 seafarers, 485 licenses to marine pilots and 11 licenses to marine
engineers during the period under review.
ZMA further
certified 108 contracts for seafarers in international ships through
DANAOS Company and endorsed 212 seafarers working in ships with
international registration.
The minister asked
the house to approve the ministry's 190,975,000/- budget, with
13,565,600/-and 177,410,000/-allocated to recurrent and development
expenditures, respectively.
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